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- wj- RL|ji|| niU I — I • THE GAFFNEY LEDGER. Tuesday and Friday. Ed. H. DaCarnp. Editor and Publisher CITY DIRECTORY. ' Officials. W. H. Rom .. -• **** W. O. Jobnso* .... Mayor Pro To® floorfs B- Hood .. ^ty 01s«fc T. H. Littlejohn .. .. Treasurer A. L. Hallman Health Officer T. H. Lockhart Chief Police Sutler Jk O* -orne .. .. City Attja. Board Public works. A. N. Wood Chairman J. N. Lipscomb Treasurer B. Q. Clary Soerotary Board of Trade. W. C. Hamrick President J. C. Otta Secretary MARKET REPORT. LOCAL COTTON MARKET. Middling 10X0 COUNTRY PRODUCE MARKET. Market 90ort corrected weekly by W- Kyle Davenport. uaqg ,, 3i)Cto 40c p rvs 20c to 30c Ducks.:::::..: EgRS Sweet Potatoes, bushel *1.60 Irish Potatoes, bushel tl-40 Turnips.bashel 1 Corn, bushel.... ;)? c Meal, bushel Oats feed, bushel ••••■• Oats, seed, bushel 85c to $100 Peas, clay, bushel . J---a Peas, white, bushel ,K i Onions, bushel $R™ Strawberries, quart *oc PLANT LESS COTTON- “Every farmer ought to start right now and pluogh up every other row of his cotton,” remarked a well-known farmer of this county a day or two ago. Just think how the price of the staple would go up by leaps and bounds if all the farmers of the South were to a man take such a heroic step! The moment the world realiz ed that the cotton acreage had been reduced one-half, there’s no felling how high prices would soar. Mill men. capitalists and speculators would fall over one another in their eaeremess 1° buy aptton. The staple would be sought alter everywhere by mo.ieyed men as an investment. Ihe above sage, sagacious and sapient advice comes from the Lan caster News and is worthy of all ac ceptation. Plant less cotton and raise more hog and hominy should be the slogan of the Piedmont planter. ment has been needed for a long time and we hope our friends across the river will succeed in their efforts. Gaffney feels an Interest In this mat ter and certain citizens of the city have expressed a willingness to help out our Blacksburg friends In the matter and will go to Blacksburg on the seventh for that purpose. We wish that the people of Gaffney and Blacksburg would realize that they are one people, and that their inter ests are identical. We should all strive for one thing, the upbuilding, and the betterment of our county. The trouble is that the people of Gaff ney and Blacksburg have not been thrown together enough to get ac quainted. The Ledger feels as much at home in Blacksburg as he does at Gaffney, simply because it knows the people over there, and conse quently feels near to them. Gaffney and Blacksburg# should meet two or three times every year and exchange ideas and thus get closer together in stead of drifting further and further apart. PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. NOTES AND COMMENTS. The new’s is that the Hon. Grover Cleveland is a very sick man, and while the reports from his bedside are not alarming yet they are not so encouraging as his friends and ad mirers might wish for. We trust he will mend and be spared many years. • • • Cansler, of Tirzah, who is again a candidate for railroad commissioner, wa? in Gaffney handing out his litera ture Saturday. If persistence is an evidence of fitness to fill this office, Cansler deserves to succeed, as this is the fourth time he has run for this oftlce. • • • Col. “Bob” Hunt, than whom there is no more congenial railway man in the country, has been promoted in the service of the Southern Railway. We are pleased to note it and trust Col. Hunt will continue to climb un til he reaches the highest rung of the railway ladder. • • • That Barnett Lipscomb, a man ^vithout ostentation, had won the af fection of many, was evidenced by the great concourse that gathered be side hi open grave Sunday to pay tribute to his memory. He was a whole-souled individual and his taking away in the full bloom of manhood is indeed sorrowful. • • • Some Cherokee county land sold yesterday at public outcry and brought from $16 to $37.50 per acre. This land was twelve miles from the county seat at that. If we had ma cadam roads this same land would have brought $50 to $100 per acre. Half a million dollars spent in build ing good roads in Cherokee would mean an increase of a million dollars in the value of our farm lands alone. Will people never awake to their own interests and begin doing something or themselves or will they continue to abide in the mud. • • • ■everything was as harmonious as could be in the Democratic conven tion yesterday. The endorsement of Col. Butler for Congress was a mark of respect that was to be expected and was altogether proper. The en dorsement of Col. Bryan was also ex pected. We have small doubt but that Col. Bryan will be the nominee of the Democratic party for president, but its dollars to doughnuts that he’ll be beaten worse than ever. We wish to God the Democrats would regain thf lr reason and nominate a man who cai; at least carry his own State and have some show of being elected. • • • The railroad commissioners will visit the city of Blacksburg on the seventh with a view *)f ordering cer tain improvements at the passenger station at that place. T£}s improve- Hon. D. E- Finle- was here yester day to attend the sale of the Jenkins land. Clerk of Court J. A. Tate, of York county, was here yesterday in his of ficial capacity to conduct the sale of the Jenkins lands. Mr. W. S. Hall, Sr., of Chester, is in Gaffney visiting his son, W. S. Hall, Esq. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lipscomb, of Spartanburg, are visiting Mrs. A. E. Lipscomb, in the city. J. W. Nance, of Union, was in the city last Friday on business. He was accompanied by his little daughter, Mary Louise, who took a keen delight in inspecting the machinery in The Ledger office. Mr. and Mrs. H. K. Osborne and Miss Lillian Jones went to the festi val at Spartanburg Thursday and re turned Saturday. Dever Little and Joe Osborne went to the festival at Spartanburg Friday. Mrs. Harold A. Loring is visiting her parents at Orangeburg. Prater Smith, of Goucher, was in town yesterday. M. C. Lipscomb, of White Plains, was in Gaffney yesterday. H. F. Floyd, of the Gowdeysville section, was here on business yester day. Frank McCluney spent yesterday in the city. J. G. Kendrick, of Sarratts, was in the city yesterday. E. L. Tate, of Timber Ridge, spent yesterday in the city. J. D. Hughes, of Wilkinsville, was here yesterday. W. C. Wilburn, of King’s Creek, was in town yesterday. Hon. C. W. Whisonant, of Wilkins ville, was here yesterday. C. Lee Lipscomb, of White Plains, was in the city yesterday. Hon. N. W. Hardin spent yesterday in Gaffney. Scott Jolly, of Ezells, was a visitor to the city yesterday. M. W. Brown, of Ravenna, was here yesterday. .J. Gad Wright, of Wilkinsville, was in town yesterday. W. W. Hopper, of Butler, spent yes terday in the city. “Uncle Boh” Scruggs, of Ezells, was here yesterday. J. A. Scruggs, Esq., of Ezells, was here yesterday. R. M. Roark, of Grover, was a visitor to the city yesterday. B. J. Gold, Esq., of Blacksburg, was here yesterday. R. J. Foster, of Littlejohn’s, was in Gaffney yesterday. E. Hardin, of Antioch, was a visitor to the city yesterday. P. S. Fayssoux, of Cherokee Falls, was in the city yesterday. R. S. Moore, of Grover, spent yes terday in the city on business.. A Toaet Here’s to The Ledger—its prose and its rhyme— Always full of news and ever on time. It stands for truth, for temperance and right And fop good government is leading the fight. Here's to DeCamp, to Bell and the crew Who manage the craft and carry it through. Here’s to Will Darby, the moulder of type Who never drinks liquor or uses a pipe. Here’s to Nat Burgess, the man with a will. Who always is pleasant and never is still. To Hamil and Parris and all of the rest Who work for the paper to make it the best. To Miss Lucy Wood, we attention would call, She's the brightest, the fairest and sweetest of all. To each correspondent with pencil in hand Who join the procession tint’s led by • the band. Here’s to the readers, big, little and all— | Men, women and children who wel come its call. Ledger Reader. to the States to put forth their best efforts. Federal aid, Instead of gtif- fling and causing a relaxation of the efforts of the people of the States, places a premium upon their efforts.” He very clearly showed the advant age to the postoffice department in facilitating the delivery or rural mails. Senator Latimer, who did so much to popularize the idea of federal aid for good roads, is dead; but the idea still lives. It has friends who are still at work and some of these days it is going to be put into actual prac tice. And when that day comes there will be people who will remember Senator Latimer and they will tfank him and honor him more, perhaps, than they did while he was living. First Baptist Church Notes. The series of meetings which be gan in the First Baptist church on Sabbath was well attended at both services and an interest of an en couraging nature was manifested in the night service. Rev. Mr. Hines, who is doing the preaching, is a pas tor of a good deal of experience in protracted meeting work. He is a clear and forcible speaker and does not have any claptrap or annoying methods. In fact he has no method. He belives in the power of the gospel to save a soul and in the accounta- bilitjg, of those who hear the gospel. In his experience in meetings he has met with a good many thrilling de monstrations of the power of prayer and of the work of the spirit and he tells them to good advantage. The people who hear him in the series of meetings will certainly be helped if they have any desire to find out the plan of salvation and the fulness of the Christ. There will be two services a day, 4 p. m. (an hour) and 8 p. m.” A cor dial invitatiop is extended to all our people to attend the services and to help in them. Subject for today at 4 p. m. will be “How shall we pray?” and tomor row at 4 p- m. “vVhy our prayers are not answered.” The afternoon ser vices will be especially helpful to Christian people. A Flag 0 n Every School House. (Published by Cor. J. A. Joel, late editor Grand Army Gazette, Oct, ’95.) Raise the flag on every school house, Let it float upon the breeze. Sing aloud “The Spangle Banner,” As It rises o’er the trees. Tell the children all its story, On the land and on the sea. That its pet names are “Old Glory” And “The Banner of the Free,” That its red should e’er remind us Of the blood my martyrs shed, That we might live in freedom’s land, After they were with the dead That its white our faith should strengthen, That the people’s cause is just. And no monarch e’er shall rule us But the God in whom we trust. That its blue for truth eternal, Like the azure sky above. E’re should keep us true and loyal And our nation’s honor love. Its stars shall lighten all the world And must prove to all who see That the people can be trusted With the boon of liberty Its stripes mean justice sure to fall Upon all assailing foes. It waves proudly and defiant / Against all who oppose Float freedom's flag in freedom’s breeze,— Starry banner that we love— From the prairies to the seaboard, Northern lake to orange grove. Raise the flag on ev’ry school house, Let it float upon the breeze Tell the children of its triumphs On the land and on the seas. Many thousand noble freemen Gave their lives to prove Its worth. The only flag that despots fear— Freedom’s hope through all the earth. It knows no sect, no race, no clan, schemes and plots it doth defy, To freedom’s storm-tossed struggling ship It is a rainbow in the sky. Raise it high, mid spire and steeple, Let it glisten in the sun, It has no spot of shame to hide In all itg victories won. Tell the children that Its symbol Is a State for every star. Tell them its victorious record In days of peace and cruel war. Tell them it is theirs to cherish, That its stars must ever set And in future they’ll defend it If need he with the bayonet COOPER MET USUAL SUCCESS IN PUTSDURG Received Thanks from Hundreds While in \ the Smoky City. The following article, taken from the Pittsburg Press, describes the re sults of L. T. Cooper’s visit to that city, and tbe effect of-his new prepara tion as told by people who had become convinced of the soundness of Cooper’s theories with regard to the human stomach. Cooper believes that the human stomach in civilized races has become greatly weakened. He claims that most ill health of the present generation is due to this fact. The article is as fol lows: “L. T, Cooper is meeting with the same astonishing success in Pittsburg as in other cities. For the past few days many thousands of Pittsburg peo ple have called at his headquarters to talk with him. “Cooper’s prophecy, made upon his arrival, to the effect that before he left Pittsburg thousands would realize that Ms theory is correct and would come and thank him for what his medicine had done, is rapidly being borne out. “On Monday an astonishing number of people called to express their grati tude to Mr. Cooper. Judging from what some of these people had to say to a Press reporter, when interviewed, Cooper’s claim that the human stom ach is degenerate is distinctly verified. “One of the most unusual statements was made by Mr. C. W. Woods, of 103 South Highland Street. He said: ‘For four years my wife was In very poor health. She was weak and thin, with a hectic flush and cough. Physicians said she had consumption, and I was inclined to believe them. It certainly looked as though her days were num bered, and there appeared to be very little ground for hope. ‘“Shortly after Mr. Cooper came to Pittsburg I began to hear of wonderful results that had been obtained by per sons who had tried his medicine, so I got some for my wife. She had taken it only two days when she was relieved of a tapeworm 42 feet long. She be gan to improve immediately—has gain ed seven pounds since she began tak ing the medicine. She feels splendid and looks very much better. If any one doubts this statement I would be pleased to have them call at my bouse and verify it. ’ ^ The Cooper remedies are be coming justly famous. We sell them —Gaffney Drug Co. Post Cards. List of Unclaimed Letters. List of unclaimed letters in Gaffney postoffice for the week ending May 4, 1908: Arthur Barnett, Jesse El win, B. H- Hopper, C- P. Hayes, J. A. Lavender, H. C. Moore, W. B. Roberts, Z. P. Stone, (2), Ben (or Maggie) Smith, George Weight, Mrs. Hanna Curry, Miss Deara Fells, Mrs. Francis C. Lytle, Mrs. Emma Martin, Miss Kath leen Moury, Miss Rachel Martin, Miss Annie Redmor, Mrs. Elisabeth Tates. Please call for advertised letters. One cent due on each one. A. R. N. Folger, P. M. Letter to F. F. Kirby, Gaffney, S- C. Dear Sir; Here’s the gist of the paint question: 1st. Every job painted Devoe takes less gallons than of any other paint. 2nd. The paint that takes least gallons wears longest; Always. We can’t help it. Yours truly 70 F W! DEVOE & CO P. S- Gaffney Hardware Co. sell cur paint. ANNOUNCEMENT. Cards inserted under this head from new until election day at the rate of $5.00 for each announcement. For House of Representative. The friends of N. W. Hardin an nounce him as a candidate for re- election to the House of Representa tive. AN BE IT ORDAINED BY THE TOWN COUNCIL OF GAFFNEY, |N COUN CIL ASSEMBLED AND AUTHOR ITY OF THE SAME: Section 1. That hereafter, it shall be unlawful for any person or per sons to tap or connect with any elec tric wires within the town of Gaffney Fo p Auditor. I am a candidate for the office of Auditor Cherokee county, subject to the rules of the Democratic primary. James W. George. The many friends of Jno. E. Jef feries, recognizing his ability, hereby announce his name as a candidate for Auditor of Cherokee County, sub ject to the rules of the Democratic primary. ONE GENT A WORD COLUMN Advertisements under this head la- sorted at the rate of one cent a word for each insertion. No ad. accepted for less than 10c; except advertise ments of farm produce offered for sale by farmers residing in Cherokee county which will be Inserted one time free of charge until further no tice. or cross meters so that they will not register current, or in any way to tamper with or injure meters, poll lines or any electric equipment, with out the permission of the superinten dent of the Electric Light Plant, if it be the property of the town and with out permission from the owner there of, if the property belongs to a person or corporation. And the person so offending shall be guilty of a misde meanor. Sec. 2. It shall be unlawful for any person to tap any water main or pipe or fixture leading to a water main within said town or to turn water in to the supply pipes at street from mains, or to add extra openings to supply pipes or to allow any person FOR SALE. or to tap or connect between tbe main F °R lines and meters or to wire around mrv nH R ‘ F ‘ ^ N 5l May 2t pd. .. n • u i u i other than persons occupying the . ? .m n , house house supplied by pipe to tike water W ith >oui bullets it d tend | from supply pipes in any vessel with- Learning and freedom firmly join. | jn sa5d Vown without first obtaining Then our in ion no <*r shall ond. ; permission from the superintendent Let cheers arise unto the skies, rne plant . And anv person so of- Like great Niagara’s roar. , 1 fending shall be guilty of a misde-1 From the mountains of Now England ,, , b * | To I acifle golden shore. gec 3 Tbat , t shall b(? unlawfu i , - ' ' ' for any person to enter upon premises IN HI8 upon which are supply pipes and take water continuously therefrom in any j vessel without first obtaining permis- _ . . . _ , _ .'sion from the owner or occupants of Eminent p ysician 3ay s This G rea Vsuch premises and from the superin- Llquid prescription is Certain , tendent of the Winter Wtorks Plant. Cure for Eczema. i And any person so offending,'shall be Still another Eczema specialist; ^ 11 a misdemeanor, comes forward in enthus!sastic praise 4 - A "y i )erson violating any of D- D. D. Prescription, the wonder- j 4116 provisions of the foregoing ful external remedy which cures Ordinance, shall, upon conviction, be FOR SALE—A second-hand holler; 15-hourse power. Apply at The Led ger office. FOR SALE—A socond-hand Melts A Weiss kerosene engine; cheap. Ad dress The Ledger, Gaffney, 8. C. WHEN in need of wedding invita tions call on The Ledger. We fur nish either printed or engraved work. FOR SALE—Cary & Kirby will have sweet potatoes on sue week. April 15 tt. FOR SALE—A sixteen-light dyna mo; in splendid condition; cheap. Address The Ledger, Gaffney, 8. C. FOR RENT. FOR RENT—Eleven rooms over J. E. Lipscomb Co., Limestone street. Suitable for barding house. See J. E. Lipscomb. May 5 tf. DOCTOR USES D. D- PRACTICE. Eczema and other similar diseases I like magic. He is Dr. C. B. Holmes, of Silver City, Mass., and in summing up his impressions of the startling cures D. D D. has effected, he says: “I have been using your D. D. D. for four years with gratifying results. TIS AS NEAR A SPECIFIC FOR HERPES. ECZEMA, PSORIASIS, ETC.. AS IS QUININE FOR MA LARIA.” Dr. Holmes is one of hundreds of. fined not exceeding one hundred* dol lars op sentenced to the guard house or public works, not exceeding thirty days. Done and ratified in Council as sembled. this. April 3, 1908. Geo. E. Hood, W. H. Ross, City Clerk. Mayor. FOR RENT—-Six-room dwelling 3 minutes walk from center of business part of town. Apply to Mrs. Sophie Darwin. May 5-8 pd. FOR RENT—The beautiful house of W. O. Lipscomb near the Globe Mill with good orchard, garden, pas ture and other patches. See Moses Wood, May 1 tf. FOR RENT—Good two miles from town, C. McArthur. farm to rent Apply to W. May 1st tf. FOR RENT—House back of Smitft Hardware Co/s store. Apply to W. H. Smtlh. Mar. U tt TO RENT—Offloe rooms over The Ledger. Apply to Md. H. DeCamp Nov. 2. tf. NOTICE TO TEACHERS- The regular public examination for Federal Aid for Good Roads. (Anderson Daily Mail.) ' Senator Bankhead, of Alabama, mqjle a speech in the senate the other day in support of his amendment to the postofflee appropriation bill, ap propriating $500,000 for the improve ment of roads in State# in which half of the money necessary for nroposed Improvements is raised locally. Mr. Bankhead addressed his remarks es pecially to the constitutionality of ap propriations for public roads, canals, and waterways Improvements, “This appropriation,” said Mr, Bankhead, “will be a direct stimulus J. L. Walker, Jas. C. Jefferies, R. C. Sarratt, Co. Board Education. May 5, 8, 12, 15. physicians who use D. D. D, In their teachers white and colored will be daily practice. The D. D. D. company Md at the house^n' wLv allows physicians to use this remedy ^ tb 15tb Friday, with the understanding that they tell y ne 15 ’ their patients what it was that cured them when the terrible Itch has been wiped ont, the skin healed and tbe raw wound covered over with soft white skin. D. D. D. is not a nasty paste to smear the shin and clothing, hut it is a clear liquid. It is advis able to use D. D. D. soap in connect ion with D- D. D. Prescription. Is any further proof of the curative powers of D. D. D. Prescription neces sary? That remedy is sold at The Gaffney Drug Company. Come in and let us show you convincing proof that D. D. D. will cure your skin dis ease. Even if you have not decided to nse D. D. D. remedy, come In and explain your case anyway. Fire Insurance! We repretfentsoineo' tbe largest and moat aubatantlal companies and would like to write your busines. Smith A Lipscomb, Agents^ We do not da all klnda af printing -we do the GOOD kind WANTED. WANTED—t^buy, or swap wagons, buggies and harness for milch and beef cows. Milch cows for sale. Come to see us. Gaffney Live Stock Co. WANTED—Half docen copies of The Ledger of April Srd. WANTED—Several eorda of good seasoned pine wood. Apply at this office LOST. LOST—Between the First Baptist ohurch and Dr. Simms’ residence, a ladies watch with “C. P. L.” engraved thereon. Finder will please return to Dr. W. K. Gunter. Apr. 5 np. t We have the most complete line of Post Cards in the city. Be sure to look them over. Views from everywhere. We have just received a large lot of Local Views; nothing else like them in the city. Comics, Novel ty Cards, Leathers. j Cherokee [Drug Comp’y April 17 to May f. F. Lipseoalfc. County 8uperri2(|t NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF THE W. C- CARPENTER CO. IN RE RECEIVERSHIP OP SAID CO- State of South Carolina, County of Cherokee. Notice is hereby given, that in pur suance of an order of Circuit Judge D. E. Hydrick, of date April 11th, 1908, appointing a receiver for the W. C. Carpenter Co., of Gaffney, S. C., all creditors of the said W. C. Car penter Co. are required to file and prove their claims against the said company, before me at my offloe Is Gaffney, S. C., within sixty (60) day* from the date of said order, or on or before June 11th, 1908. After the said sixty (60) days have elapsed, a reference on said claim will be held by me at my office is Gaffney, S. C., a notice of which will be sent to each creditor who has filed a claim or claims. At said reference the allowance of the claim of any creditor may be con tested by any other creditor, provided due notice thereof be first given to the creditor whose claim is to be oosr tested. J. Eh. Jefferies, Cl'k. C. C. FI’s. Gaffney, S. C., April 13th, 1906. April 18. 20, .7, May 4. NOTICE. By virtue of authority given the un dersigned by a commission issued by the Honorable R. M. McCown, Secre tary of State for the State of South Carolina, on the 18th day of April, 1908, notice Is hereby given that books of subscription to the capital stock of South and Western Railroad Company will be opened at the offloe of Ralph K. Carson, No. 4 Cleveland Building, Spartanburg, South Caro lina, on Tuesday, the 26th day of May, 1908, at twelve o’clock, M. Ralph K. Canon, J. Norment Powell, Board of Corporators April 21 to Mky 19. FERRY TO LET. I will be at the mouth of Klag*a Creek on Broad river on Wednesday, May 6th, at 11 o’clock a. m. to let the contract for the building of a ferry boat I reserve the right to releefe any and all bids. E. A SISTERS, READ MY FREE OFFER. This ad. with a two-oeat stamp and your address to Mrs. M. A. w»w—. Kershaw, g. C., will entitle you to tan days treatment which cures leeeor> then, ulceration, displacement fallhffli of the womb, menstrual tumors, etc. Mar. IT A HORRIBLE DISEASE. Dyspepsia is in most every home, and if you want an absolute cure, we have It. Forneberger’s Dyspepsia Remedy. 50c for tablets aad 50c and Jl.OO for the liquid. GAFFNEY DRUG CO- April 24 2 mo.